Press CTRL-End and see where the cursor goes to - is it way beyond the
last data that you have? If so you can highlight all the rows below
your last row and Edit | Delete, and the same for the unused columns.
Then save the file and see if the size is reduced.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Aug 7, 10:36*pm, Mike wrote:
I use an application called Hyperion to download information into an Excel
spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is initially loaded with formulas. At this time
the spreadsheet is about 3 Mb.

When I am satisfied with the spreadsheet, I Copy, Paste Special, Values,
which effectively removes all of the calculations. The spreadsheet still
remains at approximately 3 Mb in size. I would have thought that since all of
the calculations have been removed and I have a static spreadsheet then the
size of the spreadsheet should have been reduced by a lot more.

This important when it comes to emailing as I have a size restrictions on
what I can email.

Any ideas on what could be causing this file to remain so large?